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Chiral Perturbation Theory and Finite Size Effects on the Nucleon Mass in unquenched QCD

A. Ali Khan, T. Bakeyev, M. Göckeler, T. R. Hemmert, R. Horsley, A. C. Irving, D. Pleiter, P. E. L. Rakow, G. Schierholz, H. Stüben

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0309133

Abstract

We calculate finite size effects on nucleon masses in chiral perturbation theory. We confront the theoretical predictions with Nf=2 lattice results and discuss chiral extrapolation formulae.

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